Overberg Geoscientists Group
About Us.
A voluntary group raising profile of the Earth’s remarkable geology, minerals endowment and natural environment, which with water, provide the building-blocks of life and related growth and development.
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Activities include, exposing and educating Laypersons, students, scholars, disadvantaged groups, policy-makers & technocrats to the many facets of earth-science, including GeoEducation and GeoHeritage.
The OGG is a registered NPO and uses membership fees, donations and sponsorship monies to sustain its GeoEducational and GeoHeritage interventions.
Sponsors &
Acknowledgments
Funding from the 35-IGC Legacy Fund, Dyer Island Trust and Management, Management and Staff of Harold Porter Botanical Gardens (SANBI), Kogelberg Botanical Society, John Weaver, and UMVOTO Trust is most appreciated.
Support of OGG membership, geological colleagues Frank Tennick, Hayley Cawthra (Council for Geoscience), Cameron Penn-Clarke (University of the Witwatersrand), Stephen Davey, Paula Hutchinson, Professor’s John Compton and John Rogers, Dylan Blake and Paul Lee (Umvoto), Minrom (Oscar Van Antwerpen and Team), Martin Etsabeth (images), Russell Bailie, Matthew Huber and Elizabeth Kovlea (University of the Western Cape), local botanists (including the Hermanus Botanical Societ), Overstrand Tourism Office, and many others, are acknowledged.
The long-term interest and support from Hamilton Russell, Newton Johnson, Spookfontein, Creation, Ataraxia, and other Hemel + Aarde wine farms and Land-owners, are appreciated.